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We have one member of our forum whose posts always appear in all italics. He claims he is not writing in italics but that is the way his posts appear. He is asking for help to solve this problem. With hundreds of members in the forum he is the only forum member that this happens to. I put his account on moderation and when I view his messages in moderation they appear normal, but after I approve the messages they show up in the forum as totally italicized.

If you are a moderator there you can click Edit on one of these messages (as they appear on the forum) and once the Edit screen loads click Source on the editor. That lets you see the formatting of the message.

The <em> means that italics were applied. Or it could be a font type that is not common and instead being substituted with another. Comic Sans for example appears as script when I view it from Safari on Mobile.

What the source of a message using italics or a font change might look like
<p><em>This is in Italics</em><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;">This is a chosen font</span></p>

Once you have looked at the source you can hit Cancel to let the message remain on the forum as it was posted.

It might also help to know what he is posting from such as on a computer- which browser (Firefox, Chrome etc) and Operating system (Windows, Mac, Linux) or on a mobile device (Apple, Android) and which browser there.

Thanks for your replies. The member involved is barely computer literate and has asked me to work on this for him. I reviewed the source code as you suggested on one of the affected messages. The source code is posted below. Note that there is no “em”, yet the message appears in all italics.

<blockquote class="df-quote">
<p><strong>reefmaker1&nbsp;said...</strong></p>
We joke that any bird strike in Lake would come from the rear.&nbsp; &nbsp;..</blockquote>

I think I know what is happening, your forum is a Classic one, yes? When you use the Quote feature on the editor (when replying) it does show as italicized. His cursor is not jumping down to escape that bit of code. See my thread here